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Eclipsenow

(59 posts)
Sat Apr 28, 2018, 08:23 PM Apr 2018

Rotating cattle stores CO2, but what is the weight of a 'global average cow' to get final figure?

So if we rotate cattle in the Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing, aka, Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing (MIRG), a study by Paige says the average CO2 sequestered in pastures of AMP grazed cattle is 6.65 kilo's per kilo of carcass weight.
https://sciencetrends.com/a-holistic-approach-to-measuring-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-grazing-management-systems-for-beef-production/

There are 998.3 million head of cattle in the world. (So close to a nice round billion!)
http://beef2live.com/story-world-cattle-inventory-ranking-countries-0-106905

So we need to multiply 998.3 by 6.65kg by average cattle weight. Anyone want to tell us what a WORLD average cattle weight would be? Then this figure is what world cattle alone could sequester, let alone all the other animals that AMP can graze to bring pastures back to life? I'm expecting this figure to be well below the total *pasturelands figure*, as there are many other animals we currently graze that can be grazed better via AMP / MIRG, sequestering even more CO2.

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Rotating cattle stores CO2, but what is the weight of a 'global average cow' to get final figure? (Original Post) Eclipsenow Apr 2018 OP
Bull enid602 Apr 2018 #1
Rotating cattle? DBoon Apr 2018 #2
Cattle equal 51% of GHG EMISSIONS Duppers Apr 2018 #3
There isn't enough pastureland to graze all the world's cattle NickB79 Apr 2018 #4

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
3. Cattle equal 51% of GHG EMISSIONS
Sat Apr 28, 2018, 11:08 PM
Apr 2018
"Recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang finds that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions."

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294



NickB79

(19,233 posts)
4. There isn't enough pastureland to graze all the world's cattle
Sun Apr 29, 2018, 10:19 AM
Apr 2018

That's why we intensively farm corn and soy using fossil fuels and raise so many cattle in feedlots instead. You simply can't get enough calories per acre on pasture as you can with grains.

Look at it this way: we currently have 3X as many cattle in N. America today as bison at their pre-colonization peak.

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